Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
AESCHYLUSIn war, the first casualty is truth.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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We should know what is true before we break our rage.
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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.
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The reward of suffering is experience.
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Know not to revere human things too much.
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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
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Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.
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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
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Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
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